Wyatt v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In the case of Walker v. Likens, 24 Mo. 298 , an -owner of land was not allowed to maintain trespass against the overseer, of a road, who was acting under the orders of the county court in proceeding to open a road over the land of the party complaining, although it did not appear, from the report of the commissioners-who laid out the road, that the complaining owner had consented to the road going over his land or that the proper steps had been taken to condemn the land to public uses as in case of the owner’s refusal. Here was a case where a constitutional safeguard had been set at naught; but the remedy was not considered to lie in an action against the officers who were but acting in conformity with the orders of the court having jurisdiction over the subject.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Crenshaw v. Snyder